Sales of the Toyota Prius hybrid and Prius Prime PHEV declined 47.9% in the first half of 2022 versus the same period in 2021. The Prius Prime PHEV declined a whopping 71.6%, while the Prius hybrid declined 25.3% in 1H 2022. The Prius Prime saw sales decline to 5,353 in 1H 2022 from 18,862 in the 1H 2021.
The RAV4 SUV, which has been the 4th-best selling vehicle in America for several years, saw the regular hybrid version account for 42% of RAV4 sales in the 1H of 2022. And if you include the RAV4 Prime PHEV numbers, you get to 48% of RAV4 sales having a battery in the vehicle.
For the period 2011 through Q1 2022, PHEVs accounted for 33.7% of total cumulative EV sales in the US. In Q1 2022, however, PHEV sales accounted for only 21.4% of EV sales.
Toyota Motor Corp. reached the 200,000 electric vehicles sold in the US in Q2 2022, and next up as we’ve long forecasted is Ford Motor Co. Ford only needs to sell roughly 11,500 EVs in Q3 to reach the federal EV tax credit phaseout threshold.
US sales of the 29 EV models for which OEMs reported sales publicly had a combined 45% increase in Q2 over Q1. Sixteen BEVs and PHEVs had positive growth in Q2, while 10 models saw declines in Q2, although three of those models have been discontinued.
Updating our EVAdoption EV model database with these GM models, as many as 15 BEVs could be Plug and Charge capable by the end of 2022.
With more than 48,000 public Level 2 ports (chargers) deployed in the US, ChargePoint owns a dominant share of the market accounting for 50.2% of total Level 2 chargers, as of June 15, 2022 according to EVAdoption analysis of data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC).
Only a few automakers report US sales each month, but comparing crossovers from Ford, Hyundai, and Kia through May and it looks like the Mustang Mach-E should outsell the IONIQ 5 and EV 6. So far the three BEVs are only separated by an average of about 1,000 units per month.
EVAdoption forecast sales of the F-150 Lightning based on Ford’s 80,000 production target for 2022, recent and expected Transit-E and Mach-E sales, plus the PHEV sales to arrive at 223,258 cumulative sales through Q3 2022.
Across the 2,193 Electrify America “corridor/market” DC fast chargers located throughout the US (but excluding California sites), 1,527 or 69.6% of the total at the end of 2021 were 150 kW chargers, according to analysis of the April 30, 2022 Electrify America 2021 Report to the US EPA by EVAdoption.
